山东省临沭县第三初级中学八年级英语下册《Unit 3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived》教案 人教新目标版.doc

Unit3 What were you doing when the UFO arrived？
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教学目标:
（一）知识目标
单词和短语 : Words : barber shop , bathroom , accident , earth , silence , playground , around , strange , kitchen , modern , follow , experience, amazing, climb, anywhere, take place, World Trade Center, run away, hear about, come in, get out, take off.
(二) 能力目标
学习过去进行时态以及when、while引导的状语从句，并能用过去进行时态叙述过去发生的事。
（三）情感目标
激发学生探索大自然奥秘的兴趣。
教学重难点
1. 过去进行时态以及when、while引导的状语从句。
2. 过去进行时态的概念、构成及其用法。
教学方法： 1)Task-Based Language Teaching
2) The cognitive approach
  3)  The oral approach
教学媒体:
多媒体，录音机 投影仪
课时分配:
Period 1: Section A(1a---Grammar)
Period 2:Section A 3a---Section A 4
Period 3：Section B 1a---Self-check
Period ：4 Reading
教学过程
Period 1
Step 1 Organization
Exchange greetings with the Ss.
Duty report: It is between two students. They are having a dialogue.
Enjoy a clip of film about the UFO
Step 2 Revision
1.Show four animation pictures on the screen
After showing the pictures, ask:
----What is Peter’s mother doing? ---She is cooking.
---What is Peter’s father doing? ---He is watching TV.
---What is Peter doing? ---He is sleeping late.
---What is Peter’s brother doing?. ---He is getting out of the shower
2. Lead the students into the real situations:
Ask one boy student: What are you doing now?
The student may answer: I am listening to you.
Ask the whole class: What is he doing?
The whole class answer: He is listening to you.
Repeat this with one girl student. Practice with the whole class, trying to revise the tense with different personal pronouns.
Step 3 Leading in: introduce the past continuous tense to the students
1. Ask one student (student A) to leave the room and wait outside the door
Then ask two students to do actions, one (students B) is writing on the blackboard and the other (student C) is drawing a picture. They keep doing it without stopping until I ask them to stop.
2. Ask student B: What are you doing?
Student B answers: I am writing on the blackboard.
(Write the sentence on the blackboard as blackboard work)
Repeat this with student C, write: I am drawing a picture
3. Ask the student outside to come in and sit down. Then ask the two students who are doing actions sit down too.
4. Ask the first student who was writing on the blackboard.
Ask: What were you doing when (student A) came in?
Help him to answer: I was writing on the blackboard when he came in.
(Write I was writing on the blackboard as the blackboard work)
I say to the class: He was writing on the blackboard when (student A) came in.
Ask the class to repeat this sentence.
5. Repeat this with the second student who was drawing a picture.
(Write I was drawing a picture )
6. Ask some other students the question: What were you doing when (student A) came in?
Then students ask and answer in pairs: What were you doing when (student A) came in?
7. Point to the blackboard-writing( During my teaching above, I have written it on the blackboard step by step). Help them to find out the differences between the two pairs of sentences. Tell the students:
Today we are going to learn a new tense ----the past continuous tense.
Introduce the past continuous tense.
I am writing on the blackboard.
I was writing on the blackboard when A came in.
I am drawing a picture.
I was drawing a picture when A came in..
8. More practice about continuous tense.
9. Comparison : make a comparison between the two tenses.
时态
现在进行时
过去进行时
用法
表示现在正在进行的动作
表示过去某个时刻正在进行的动作
结构
is/am/are + doing
was/were + doing
例句
I am having an English class
I was having an English class.
Step 4 Section A 1a
1. Show a picture of all kinds of UFOs and ask Ss: What is UFO? Do you know?
Help Ss answer: Unidentified Flying Object
2. Show a picture of all kinds of aliens and ask: What does the alien look like?
Ss answer according to their imaginations.
3. Show a picture (the picture on page 18) on the screen.
Tell about the picture with the students.
Say: A reporter was asking some people “What were you doing when the UFO arrived?” If you want to know what they were doing. Please open your books, let’s look at 1a. please look at the picture and match the statements with the people in the picture
4. Pairwork : Where were you when the UFO arrived? I was in…
Step 5 Section A (1b).
1.In order to transit from 1a to 1b naturally.
I say: Would you like to know what the reporter was asking? Now please look at the picture and listen to the reporter’s questions and circle the correct responses.
2. Pairwork: What were you doing when the UFO arrived? I was…ing when…
3. Listen and repeat.
Step6 Section A (1c)
1.Pairwork
A: Where was the girl when the UFO arrived?
B: She was in front of the library.
A: What was she doing when the UFO arrived?
B: She was standing in front of the library.
1. Ask students to ask and answer in pairs
Step 7 Section A (2a) (2b)
1. Look at the picture in 2a and tell what the alien did after he arrived at Center Street. Ss answer according to the phrases beside the picture.
2.I say: Please listen and find out what did the alien do first and what did he do next. Put these phrases in order.
2.After Ss finish it. Check the answer.
3. Work on (2b) Listen again. Complete the following sentences with “when” or “while”. Then check the answer.
1. Listen and repeat.
2. Ask Ss to look at the four sentences in (2b) carefully and try to find out the different usage of when and while.
3. Give a summary of the usage of when and while.
. while当……时候(后面跟的动作延续,多用进行时态)
when 当……时候(后面跟的动作不延续,多用过去时态)
Step 8 Section A (2c)
Look at the picture .Say what each person was doing when the UFO landed. Make sentence with “when” and" while
A: What was the girl doing when the UFO took off?
B: While the girl was…
C: When the UFO took off the man was…
Step9 Survey
Ask your two partners what they were doing at these time yesterday.
Time(yesterday)
you
Your partner 1
Your partner 2
7:00pm

8:00pm

9:00pm

They should report their survey result to the class.
Step 10 Summary
(After the students go through the four tasks, it is the right time for me to help them sum up the usage of the past continuous tense. The summary can help them form a full idea about the tense)

用法
表示过去某个时刻正在进行的动作
结构
was/were + doing
常见的
标志词
1) at 9 o’clock yesterday, from 8 to 9 yesterday morning
at this/that time yesterday
2) 主句（过去进行时）＋ when + 从句（一般 过去时）
例句
1)I was cutting hair at 9 o’clock yesterday.
2)I was sleeping late when the UFO arrived.
Step 11 Homework
1. Go over the words in this unit
2. 用介词或介词短语填空。
① They were talking the phone .
② I was the barber’s chair .
③ The boy was walking the street when a UFO landed .
④ I had a very unusual experience Sunday .
⑤ The alien visited the Museum Flight .
教后反思:

Period 2
Step 1 Greeting and duty report
Step 2 Revision
1.Show Ss some pictures about what people did last…
First I ask Ss: “What were they doing last…?”
S1 answers: “ They were reading/doing homework.”
Then ask Ss ask and answer according to the pictures inpairs.
2. Lead the students into the real situations:
Ask one boy student: What were you doing last…?
The student may answer: I was shopping.
Ask the whole class: What was he doing last…?
The whole class answer: He was shopping.
Repeat this with one girl student. Practice with the whole class, trying to revise the tense with different personal pronouns.
Step 3 Section A (3a)
1.Listen and read the e-mail message
2. Read carefully(精读).Collect different information and write some on the Bb . Explain them simply.
3. Number the pictures in the correct order.
4. Answer the questions.
a) What kind of experience did Ted have on Sunday?
b) What was he doing at around 10:00 in the morning?
c) What happened(发生) then?
d) Was it strange?
e) Who got out? And what did he do next?
f) What did Ted do when he saw that?
g) What did Ted feel when the alien went into a souvenir shop?
h) What was the alien doing when the shop assistant called the police?
i) What did the alien do before the police arrived?
j) When did Ted call the TV station?
k) Isn’t that amazing?
Step4 Section A (3b)
Cover the e-mail message. Look at the pictures and tell a story.
I had a very unusual experience on Sunday　 _____________.I _____________,when_____________. While it _____________,the shop assistant_____________.While the alien ____________, I_____________.
Step5 Section A (4)
Pairwork
A: What were you doing at nine o’clock last Sunday morning?
B: I was sleeping. How about you?
A: I was doing my homework.
B: You are kidding.

you
student1
student2
9:00am

11:30am

1:00pm

4:00pm

Make a report:
At nine o’clock last Sunday morning, I was sleeping. My friend John was doing her homework…
Step6 Consolidation
Fill in the blanks with the proper words.
I had a very ________ experience ________ Sunday. At ________ ten o’clock in the morning, I was _________ down the street ________ a UFO landed ________ in front of me. You can _______ how ______ it was! An alien ______ ______ and ________ ______ Center Street. I followed it to see ________ it was going, and I was very ________ when it went into a souvenir shop. _________ it was ________ at the souvenirs, the shop _________ called the police. Before the police arrived, the ________ left the shop and then ________ the Museum of Flight. While the alien was _______ the museum, I called the TV station. Isn’t that ___________!
Step7 Homework
Cover the story in 3a .Try to retell the story .
教后反思：

Period 3
Step 1 Greeting and duty report
Step 2 Revision
Show pictures and key words or phrases. Get Ss to make sentences.
Step3 Section B(1)
1.Show pictures and present the phrases in Section B (1)
1. Discrible the pictures in Section B (1)using more than two sentences .
a) The boys are playing football. A girl is shouting at them.
b) There is a dog in the picture. What’s the dog doing? It’s jumping down.
c) What’s in the picture? There is a snake. It’s scary. The man is scared.
d) There is a cat in the picture. The cat is climbing the tree.
3. Match the sentences with the picture.
2. Check the answer.
Step4 Section B (2a) (2b)
1. (2a) Say: Listen. Two people are talking about some things. Check the six things you hear in the chart.
2. Play for the first time. Ss only listen. Play a second time and ask Ss to check the things they hear.
3. (2b) Listen again and write the letter of who did each thing in the chart.
Play the recording again if Ss don’t finish the work.
4. Correct the answers
Step5 Section B (2c)
1. Talk about the people in 2a.student A begins a sentence with “while”. Student B completes the sentence.
A: While John was walking to school
B: While John was walking to school, he saw a cat in a tree.
C: While John was climbing the tree……………..
Step6 Section B (3)
1. Talk about the picture.
Ask Ss what they see in the picture. Help Ss say “ a suitcase and a cage”& “a woman with glasses” Ask “Where is the woman?” Ss answer “ in a train station”
2.Read the article and find out how many Adverbial Clause of Time introduced by when and while.
1. Read again and find the answers to these questions.
1).What was Linda doing when Davy ran away?
2). Why couldn’t Linda see Davy?
3). Where was Davy while Linda was looking for him?
4). What happened while Linda was on the telephone?
5). What was Davy doing when Linda finally saw him?
2. Explain some difficult points if possible.
Step7 Section B (4a)
Use pictures to tell a story, using the past continuous tense
1． Ask some questions about the pictures and let Ss answer.
2．Show the pictures on the screen. Ask four students to explain what is happening in each picture. Give some help if they need. In every picture, there is a clock showing the time. The students should use the time to tell the story.
Sample story: Last Sunday, I went to the park by bike at 11:00. I put my bike near the small trees. When I went to see the boys swimming, a thief saw my bike. While I was watching the boys swimming, he took my bike away.(or he stole my bike) . When I wanted to go back home, I couldn’t find my bike. I was very worried. I called the police at once. The police arrived a few minutes later. He helped me find out my bike. I thanked him and went back home.
Step8 Self Check(1)
Ask Ss to do the exercises , then check the answers.
Step9 Self Check(2)
First learn the phrases, especially “in hospital”& “at the doctors”
Then ask Ss to look at what He Yan did yesterday. And then get Ss to write what they were doing at these times.
Sample writing:
While He Yan was at the doctor’s, I was going to the class. While she was having an English class, I was having a test. While she was having lunch with her mother, I was playing in the park. While she was visiting her aunt in hospital, I was studying in the classroom. While she was going shopping, I was going home.
Step10 Self Check(3)
Circle the words that don’t belong.
Step11 Just for fun
Ask Ss to look at pictures carefully and read the dialogue . Then find out the answers to these questions :“Was she scared? How do you know
Step 11 Homework
SB Page 23 , Selfcheck , Parts 1and 2 .
教后反思：

Period 4
Step 1 Greeting and duty report
Step 2 Revision
Retell the story in Section B (2a)
Step3Reading.(Section1 Before you read)
Show the two pictures and talk about them in groups.
What were you doing or where were you when you heard the news?
T: Liu Xiang won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympics. When did it happen?
S1: It happened at 21:30 on August 27th,2004.
T: Where were you when you heard the news?
S1:I was in…
T: What were you doing ?
S1: I was…
Ask and answer about the second picture in the same way.
Step4Reading.(Section2 While you read)
1. T: Today we will read a passage. Before reading, let’s read the reading strategy.
Ss: The title can be helpful for you to understand a text. It’s a good idea to read the first sentence of each paragraph before you read.
1. Ask Ss to look at the title and think about what is the passage about.
2. Ask Ss to underline the first sentence of each paragraph.
3. Explain some useful phrases: have fun/in silence/ take place/in space/hear about/as…as
4. Find out the dates when some important events happened.
5. Questions:
1) What do many American people remember? Why?
2) Where was Martin Luther king killed?
3) What was Robert Allen when Martin Luther King was killed?
4) What was he doing when he heard the news?
5) What did their teacher ask them to do then?
6) Who destroyed the World Trade Center? Was that a terrible event in history?
7) Who became the first Chinese astronaut in space?
8) What did he do in space?
9) What did he became